The affidavit says Swift provided a written statement saying Schlegel ordered him upstairs and to sit down while Schlegel pointed a gun at Swift. Schlegel fired a round into the floor and one into the ceiling while Swift was in the home, the document said.

When Schlegel refused to come out of the house after initial police orders to do so, police quickly arrived in force. Police cordoned off the block, formed a perimeter around the house and tried to talk Schlegel out using a bullhorn, but to no avail.

"We made several attempts to get the suspect's attention," Manescu said.

Schlegel did not respond, but Manescu said police heard additional gunshots inside the home and decided to wait before breaking the windows.

A carpenter by trade, Schlegel lived with a girlfriend, according to his niece, Elizabeth Ortiz, who arrived at the home Sunday afternoon apparently oblivious to what occurred earlier that morning.

"I had no idea," she said.

Ortiz said her uncle worked sporadically and has been "struggling a bit" over the last 10 years. His mother's death last year seemed to hit him hard, Ortiz said.

"I never even knew he had a gun. He's really a nice man," she said.

South Whitehall District Judge Jake Hammond arraigned Schlegel on the charges, set bail at $75,000 and sent him to Lehigh County Prison.

Hammond also arraigned Schlegel on warrant charges stemming from a vandalism incident about 11 p.m. April 17 at a neighbor's house.

On April 17, an officer went to 849 Greenleaf for a vandalism complaint and found smashed furniture on the front porch. Witnesses directed the officer to Schlegel's home.

In that case, when police got to the Schlegel's house, he refused to let them in, then shoved a metal pipe object through a mail slot as the officers looked through the slot into the home. He narrowly missed hitting one officer in the head and another in the stomach area, according to an arrest affidavit.

Police left and obtained an arrest warrant on charges of attempted aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and stalking. For those charges, Hammond set bail at $25,000.